Chair: Joe William Trotter, Jr., Giant Eagle University Professor of History and Social Justice and Director, CAUSE
Presenters:
James Grossman, Executive Director of the American Historical Society and Associate Faculty in History, University of Chicago
Deborah Gray White, Board of Governors Distinguished Professor of History, Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey
Thomas Guglielmo, Associate Professor of American Studies, the George Washington University
Remarks: Earl Lewis
Chair: Nico Slate, Professor of History and Department Head, CMU (to be confirmed)
Presenters:
Thomas Holt, James Westfall Thompson Professor of American and African American History and the College, University of Chicago
Victoria W. Wolcott, Professor of History, SUNY Buffalo
Merida M. Rua, Professor, Latino Studies, Northwestern University
Remarks: Earl Lewis
Keynote Lecture and Chair: Leslie M. Harris, Professor of History, Northwestern
Panelists:
Kevin Dawson, “Enslaved Ship Pilots and the Rise of the Black Urban Atlantic World,” Associate Professor, University of California-Merced (to be confirmed)
Emma Hart, “Black Life in Colonial Charleston: An Atlantic Perspective”,
Pennsylvania State University
Leslie Alexander, “’We are A Distinct People’: Black New York”
Associate Professor, African American and African Studies, Oregon
Keynote Lecture and Chair: Clarence Lang, Dean of Liberal Arts College, Penn State University
Panelists:
Brian Kelly, “From the Slaves’ Jubilee to White ‘Redemption in Charleston”
Reader in U.S. History, Queen’s University, UK
Millington Bergeson-Lockwood, “Black Politics in Boston”
Community Liaison, US Embassy, Malawi
Davarian Baldwin, “’Chicago could be the Vienna of American Fascism’”
Raether Distinguished Professor of American Studies, Trinity College
Keynote Lecture and Chair: Rhonda Williams, Professor of History, John L. Seigenthaler Chair in American History, Vanderbilt University
Panelists:
Marcus Hunter, “Philadelphia’s Black Belt”
Associate Professor of Sociology, African American Studies, UCLA
Donna Murch, “L.A.: Race and Punishment in the Late 20th Century City”
Associate Professor of History, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Kwame Holmes, “Race, History, and Gay Politics in the Nation’s Capital”
Assistant Professor, Ethnic Studies, University of Colorado
Benjamin Houston, “Race in the Rust Belt: Black Pittsburgh and Narratives of Race Relations in the Deindustrializing Metropolis”
Senior Lecturer in Modern US History, Newcastle University, UK
Concluding Remarks: Joe William Trotter, Jr. and Nico Slate